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I. INTRODUCTION
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Fig. 2.
Submatrices
, the transformer
With the nodal admittance matrix
voltage-current relationship can be expressed as
(2)
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TABLE I
SUBMATRICES FOR COMMON STEP-DOWN TRANSFORMER CONNECTIONS
where the
and
needs to be
(5)
According to (3)(5), the implementation of the forward/backward sweep algorithm requires the inversion of
and
. However, a close examination
submatrices
matrices for common transformer configurations
of the
shows that these submatrices are often singular. Table I shows
for the nine most common step-down
the submatrices of
transformer connection types, and Table II shows the matrices
for step-up transformers, where
(6)
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TABLE II
SUBMATRICES FOR COMMON STEP-UP TRANSFORMER CONNECTIONS
,
(10)
where vector
side; thus
(7)
(8)
and
is always zero for transformer
The product of
. This is because
is repconfigurations other than
resented by
or
in all other transformer configurations
. From (7) and (8), it can be seen that
except
(12)
and is the per-unit transformer leakage admittance. For simplification, the leakage admittances of each phase are assumed
to be identical. For transformers with unbalanced admittances,
their nodal admittance matrices are more complex and do not
take the forms shown in Tables I or II. However, it is proved
that the singularity of the transformer submatrices remains the
same.
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(22)
(16)
Similar results can be obtained for forward sweep calculation
(17)
is the nonzero-sequence component of
where
is the same as
, except that the last row is replaced with
, and
are obtained by setting the elements in
to 0, respectively.
the last row of and
or
are calOnce the nonzero-sequence components of
culated, zero-sequence components are added to them to form
the line-to-neutral voltages so that the forward/backward sweep
procedure can continue.
As an example, consider the backward sweep for an untransformer. According to Table I
grounded
(18)
and
(19)
(20)
is evident. However, the matrix
The singularity of matrix
can be changed to nonsingular if one of its rows is replaced with
, i.e.,
(21)
where
is the line impedance matrix for feeder segment
34.
-connected transformer, its
matrix is not
For the
invertible. According to (16)
Since
only contains the positive-and negative-sequence
, an initial value of zero-sequence voltage
components of
is needed to get the transformer primary side voltage
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Next the currents at the ungrounded Wye side can be determined with
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TABLE III
DURING ITERATIONS
where
is the line impedance matrix for feeder segment
, the zero-sequence component
12. Note that by updating
is also updated and will be used in the next backward sweep
procedure.
based on the knowledge
The next step is to determine
and . Still, due to matrix singularity, only positive-and
of
negative-sequence components can be determined
The voltage
can then be calculated by adding zero-sequence voltage , which is obtained from the last value of
in backward sweep. The forward sweep then continues until bus
4 is reached.
4) Zero-Sequence Voltage Update: As illustrated above, for
or
submatrices, zero-setransformers with singular
quence voltage update calculation cannot be performed from
one side to the other. This is due to the fact that zero-sequence equivalent circuit is interrupted at a transformer with
windings. Hence, the zero-sequence
ungrounded Y and/or
voltage on one side of the transformer cannot be determined
based on line-to-neutral voltages on the other side, even when
line current information on both sides is available. In these
cases, the zero-sequence voltages on the primary side can be
updated by the source voltage during the next forward sweep.
However, the zero-sequence voltages on the secondary side
with a or ungrounded Y winding will not be updated due to
the lack of voltage reference point on the secondary side, which
makes determining the real line-to-neutral voltage impossible.
To avoid such difficulties, the method in [9] used the lineor ungrounded Y side of the transto-line voltage on the
former and the line-to-neutral voltage in the remaining part of
the system. The method in [5] introduced an arbitrary reference neutral point to convert the line-to-line voltages to the
line-to-neutral voltages. The proposed method, using an initially
guessed zero-sequence voltage on the primary side, does not reor ungrounded
quire any special treatment in handling the
Y transformers. With this initial zero-sequence voltage, line-toneutral voltages can be used throughout the system.
The primary-side zero-sequence voltages are updated by the
source voltage. The zero-sequence voltage on the secondary
or ungrounded Y winding are determined by
side with a
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TABLE IV
ZERO-SEQUENCE VOLTAGES AT BUS 2
TABLE VI
LINE-TO-LINE VOLTAGES AT BUS 4
TABLE V
ZERO-SEQUENCE VOLTAGES AT BUS 4
Fig. 4.
other side together with current information. For other connections, a close examination reveals that the final values are in the
vicinity of the initial value. In other words, zero-sequence voltages are not updated, even though the algorithm converges. This
is due to the fact that without additional grounding devices on
the secondary side, the subnetwork is isolated, and the zero-sequence voltage will not be affected by other part of the system.
Table VI shows the corresponding line-to-line voltages at
bus 4 for different transformer configurations with different
initial zero-sequence voltages. The results indicate that even
though different initial values may produce different final
zero-sequence voltages, the corresponding line-to-line voltages
are correct when the algorithm converges, which meets the
requirement for most load flow analysis.
C. Large System Tests
The IEEE 123-bus example shown in Fig. 4 is used to demonstrate the transformer models in large systems. The load flow
analysis calculation was performed using per-unit values on a
basis of 115 kV/4.16 kV/480 V and 10 MVA. There are two
transformers in this system. One is located between nodes 150
and 149, and the other is between nodes 61 and 610.
Extensive tests have been performed on the system to verify
the validity of the proposed method. Comparisons have been
made against transformer modeling approaches developed in [4]
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TABLE VII
ITERATION NUMBERS FOR DIFFERENT SYSTEM LOADING CONDITIONS
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TABLE VIII
ITERATION NUMBERS FOR DIFFERENT R/X RATIOS
and [5]. For convenience, the proposed modeling method is labeled model 1 in the tables, and methods in [5] and [4] are labeled model 2 and model 3, respectively.
Table VII compares the results under different loading conditions, and Table VIII compares the results under different R/X
ratios. It appears that there is a strong agreement in terms of
the resultant bus voltages and branch currents among the three
models under all test conditions.
From the results, it is observed that as the load increases, the
number of iterations for convergence increases irrespective of
the models. However, model 1 and model 2 appear to be less
sensitive than model 3. Results further reveal that the iteration
numbers for model 3 are larger than that of model 1 and 2. The
major reason is that in model 3, the injection currents of all the
equivalent current sources are calculated based on voltages obtained in the previous iteration, instead of the updated voltages.
Even though the computation time needed for each iteration is
less for model 3, the smaller amount of voltage/current update
makes the total iteration number much higher.
It can be seen that with increases in R/X ratios, all the models
exhibit poor convergence, although model 1 and model 2 are
less sensitive.
V. CONCLUSION
A unified method to incorporate three-phase transformers
into the forward/backward sweep-based distribution load
flow is presented. The singularity issues existing in certain
transformer configurations were thoroughly examined. This
paper indicates that the singularity appears only in certain
transformer submatrices and only in certain transformer connections. This paper shows that when the singularity occurs,
Peng Xiao (S04) received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from
North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China, in 2000. He is currently
working toward the Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
David C. Yu (M84) is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Wei Yan received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Chongqing
University, Chongqing, China, in 1999.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Associate Chairman of the
Electrical Power Department, Electrical Engineering College, Chongqing
University. His research interests include optimal operation and control in
power systems.